VILLAGE OF EXETER

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The Timberwolves headed to Johnson, Neb. Friday night to
meet the Johnson-Brock Eagles.It didn’t
take Exeter-Milligan long to show that they are a force to be reckoned with in
D-2.

In the first quarter Kyle Jensen took the ball in on the
first possession for a touchdown. Coach Dean Filipi started Sophomore Trevor
Luzum at quarterback and for the Timberwolves' second possession Jensen took the
ball into the endzone on a 41 yard run.Luzum kept the ball to add two more points lighting up the scoreboard
14-0.

It wasn’t long before the T-wolves were on the board again
this time with Dusty Axline carrying the ball and Luzum keeping the ball on the
point after bringing the score to 22-0.

The second quarter didn’t fare much better for the Eagles as
Jensen again headed down the field for a 76 yard touchdown run. It was Axline
who carried the ball in for two with 10:31 on the clock.

Jensen and Axline got their hands on the ball again bringing
the T-wolves on top of the Eagles 38-0.

Johnathon Mounce got into the touchdown action carrying the
ball into the endzone.The point after
failed but the Eagles didn't have much of a chance as Mounce intercepted the
ball and brought it down just shy of another touchdown at the 2 yard line.

With 2:05 left in the first half Luzum ran for a 51 yard
touchdown bringing the half time score to 56-0.

The Timberwolf younger players had the opportunity to play
for the entire second half.At
quarterback freshman Seth Maxson served the ball up to Eric Olsen and Joey
Bartu who both ran the ball.Olsen
intercepted what would have been touchdown for the Eagles, stopping their run
and bringing the ball out to the 15 for the Exeter-Miligan team.

The Eagles scored twice in the second half, once on a
breakaway run and the second on a hail mary pass that brought them down to the
5 yard line.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

The large rubber matting was poured on Monday afternoon at the Exeter site track long jump and high jump areas. The lines and markings will be painted in approximately two weeks. There is a group working on raising funds to coat the actual track.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Exeter-Milligan School Board met on September 10th first opening a
budget hearing to the community.

Superintendent Paul Sheffield reviewed the basic numbers noting that
the district has had a $112 million valuation increase in the last year.

Sheffield also noted that costs for the Special Education program increased
$93,000. “We are asking for $122,825 more but the levy is down.”

One difference is that the board has changed the amounts levied for the
building fund. “Last year,” Sheffield explained, “the building fund was
at 3.8 because the JPA took some. The board can levy up to 14 cents by
statue so we will levy 13.955.”

“Half of the schools in the Crossroads Conference were operating on a
levy override of the previous five years but now all of them are under the levy
because land values have all gone up,” Sheffield reported.

The budget shows that district will receive $6,667.00 in state aid this
year.

The budget hearing was closed at 8:06 and the levy request hearing was
opened at the same time. It was noted that there was no levy request for
the JPA in the 2014-15 budget.

School board President Sharon Kuska and Sheffield explained that the
JPA levies in order to pay off indebtedness but since there are no bonds taken
out for a project and there are no payments to make.

“Right now we don’t have a building project planned or in the works and
we are holding off for this year until we have something to put the funds
toward. We are just putting it on hold for a year. I think we will have a
decision by the end of the year,” according to Kuska.

“We are working with an architect and we are looking at what we think
is feasible. We are discussing it. It’s not that we haven’t, it’s
that we haven’t made a decision on it yet. This has caused a lack of
consensus on the board at the moment. We would rather have consensus.”

Audience member Brian Murphy responded to Kuska, “I wish my kids could
use it, I wish the community could use it. I wish a decision would be
made. I don’t care how it is funded. When Junior High basketball
season comes we will all be practicing in the same gym as I don’t see the
weight equipment moving anytime soon (out of the small gym).”

School board candidate Adam Erdkamp gave his input, “We are still
talking about the same amount of money (taking it from the building fund
instead of the JPA), there has to be some kind of deadline. The taxpayers
are wanting to know.”

Kuska noted that he board would have another work session in
September.

The levy request hearing was closed at 8:15 and the regular monthly
meeting was called to order.

After the Treasurers’ report was given by board member Tom Sluka and
the board made a correction on the minutes of the work session they dove into
the agenda.

The board reported that part of the track improvements are completed
but the equipment broke down. “What is done looks good and the grass
around the area came up nice,” noted Board Secretary Annette Gloystein.

The work session on building and grounds was scheduled for September
22nd in Exeter at 7:30 p.m.

Board member Brent Moore commented on the building and grounds
projects, “It would seem we have levied a lot of taxes for the JPA. It’s
good to have the funds. If we aren’t going to spend the dollars then we
shouldn’t levy for them.”

The board accepted the budget. The proposed tax rate was approved
at .625714 with the special building fund changing the most, from .038210 to
.139551.

After approving Sheffield as the legal representative for the district
the board discussed the state school board convention and the labor relations
conference.

Sheffield presented some issues that the state has had with the NESA
testing results. “Next month I will have a report that compares last year to
this year. We won’t be able to release the writing scores for 8 -11th
grade as there were some glitches in the tests for one district. We can’t
publish them but we can use them for personal information. Using that
information we are doing a few things differently this year but we are moving
to a MAP assessment that gives us immediate results.”

“I like that you are charting an individual child’s progress. It
shows that a child is improving versus a group always,” said Gloystein.

The board set the next meeting for October 13 in Milligan.

After the meeting Murphy added, “I hope that the band room is included
in the project as almost half of the high school is involved in the band this
year along with the elementary students who are going down to the band room in
the basement for music.”

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VOLLEYBALL2009 - State Champions

2010 - State Champions

2011 - Runner Up at State Tournament

2012 - State Champions

2014 - Third place at State Tournament

2015 - State Champions

2016 - Third place at State Tournament

2017- State ChampionsFOOTBALL2012 - Runner Up at State2013 - State Champions2014 - State ChampionsBOYS BASKETBALL2015 - State ChampionsGIRLS BASKETBALLSOFTBALLTRACK2017 - Boys Third Place at State Track

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